Pablo became famous for devising the plan to
bring down Emiliano Zapata, which he did
in the year 1919.

However, Pablo González Garza had to
stomach harsh criticism prior to that feat.

Venustiano Carranza, Pablo
González Garza's boss, said in an interview with Spanish journalist
V. Blasco Ibañez that "General
González commanded the largest forces in the Revolution and he came
out of it with the unique honor of having lost every battle in which
he was engaged."

Tuff stuff, but Pablo outlived them
all. Besides, what the good man lacked in military victories he made
up with brutality.

PABLO GONZÁLEZ WITH HIS NEW PUTTER

Pablo González and the Guerrillas

As to Pablo González Garza's
reputation, it is said that his employed methods of repression
overshadowed even those adopted by
Victoriano Huerta and
Robles Domínguez in
earlier counterrevolutionary campaigns.

But what González really did was giving the people of
Morelos a
reason to rally again and to resume the revolution. González'
barbaric methods pushed the people back towards Zapata in their
misery, more bitter and more determined because now they had even
less to lose.

On top of that the people of Morelos had already seen the major
improvements Zapata had brought about. All that was swept away once
more by the federals and the state of Morelos went back to guerrilla
war fighting 30,000 well-armed federals in small units of 100 or
200.